Egg-box



(No Model.)

B. 0. BOWER.

EGG BOX.

Patented Sept. 28, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELIJAH O. BO\VER, OF MILIVAUKEE, WVISCONSIN.

EGG-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,919, dated September 28, 1886.

Application filed April 23, 1886. Serial No. 199,967. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIJAH G. BOWER, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of WVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Soap and Egg Boxes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to soap and egg boxes; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction,whereby the contents of said boxes will be prevented from becoming moldy or musty, as hereinafter fully set forth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of my improved cases or boxes, one side of which is fitted with egg-trays. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of said trays. Fig. 3 is a detail view showing the blanks from which the said trays are formed, and Fig. 4 illustrates a variation in the c011- struction of the outer packing-case.

A A illustrate the sides of my outer packing-case, which sides are provided with series of perforations a (t a, which may be either round, as in Fig. 1, or elongated, as in Fig. 4; but in either case I prefer that they should slant or be inclined downward from the inside to the outside of said box-sides, so that if my cases are exposed to rain or snow while in transit or while outside of a store or warehouse there may be the less danger of their contents being damaged thereby.

When my cases are used for soap, it is not necessary to employ trays, as the circulation of air from side to side will assist in drying out the soap, which can therefore be safely packed for transportation, storage, or sale in a fresher condition than if the old style of tight boxes were used, and without danger of molding or decaying.

\Vhen I employ my cases for eggs, I prefer to use the trays illustrated in the drawings. These trays are made preferably of strawboard by the simple putting together of the pieces D Z), (shown in Fig. 3,) so as to make the complete trays shown at B, Fig. 2. Each piece b orb is provided with a series of central perforations, c c, from which slits c a lead to one edge of said pieces.

The method of j oining these series of strips or pieces in the manufacture of egg-trays is too Well known to require further description, the important feature of my trays being that these holes 0 c coincide at the centers of the points of union of all the strips b and b, and hence perfect ventilation is secured, While at the same time the eggs (or other articles) put in the pockets formed by the union of the strips 1) and I) cannot possibly come in contact, as they might if the said holes 0 a were intermediate of the points of the union of the said strips. The division-plates 0 between the trays B are similarly perforated, so that their openings 0 shall always come just under or over the said point of union of the strips b and b of the trays B, above or below said divisionplates, as the case may be, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 1, respectively.

My boxes are provided with suitable covers, A, and may have central division-strips, A if desired. W'hile especially designed for soap and eggs, they are adapted for containing any perishable goods, either with or without the described trays B.

In the shipment of eggs by ordinary cases, with ordinary trays, the eggs not only become musty in a short time, but often taste of the paper or straw board of which the trays are made, all of which is obviated in my improvement.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In boxes or cases for the transportation or storage of soap, eggs, or other perishable ma terial, the combination of the sides A A, pro vided with series of round perforations cut or bored slantingly through said sides, with a series of trays or receptacles consisting of straw-board or analogous strips, each having vertical slits extending from one edge to the center and there terminating in enlarged circular openings, whereby when the trays are in place in the box or case the openings in the center of the tray-strips will be in line with the series of openings in the box or case sides, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of VVisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

ELIJ AH C. BOWVER.

\Vitnesses:

H. G. UNnERwoon, MAURICE F. FREAK. 

